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Workshop on Interaction between Operating System and Computer Architecture
IOSCA 2005
Held in conjunction with 2005 IEEE International Symposium on Workload Characterization
Saturday October 8 2005, Austin Texas
Workshop Overview and Topics:
Operating systems (OS) constitute a major software component and are essential to any computing system.
Commercial and server workloads such as online transaction processing, database, file/e-mail servers
involve significant OS activity. The interaction between OS and emerging architecture (e.g. SMT and multicore) / technology (e.g. hardware virtualization) are projected to continuously increase. Currently, much of
the research that influences the design of computer systems largely focuses on user-level applications. To
optimize system performance, it is important to merge the two constantly evolving, but many times quite
independently components –computer architecture and OS to address new design challenges.
This workshop focuses on characterizing, modeling and optimizing the interaction between OS and
hardware in the light of emerging architecture paradigms, workloads and computing technology. Topics of
particular interest include, but are not limited to:
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Characterization of OS activity in emerging workloads
Frameworks and tools for full-system simulation
Techniques for mitigating the bottlenecks of OS execution
OS-aware microarchitecture (e.g. predictor, cache and execution unit) design
Techniques to reduce the interference between OS and user applications
Workload variability issues in complete system evaluation
Hardware accelerators for key OS services (e.g. networking, data copying)
Performance, power, dependability and security in OS
Effect of OS mechanisms (e.g. scheduling) on emerging architecture (e.g. SMT and multi-core
CMP)
OS-intensive benchmark suite
Implication of hardware virtualization and virtual machines on OS design
Furthermore, the workshop aims at providing a forum for researchers and engineers from academia and
industry to discuss their latest research in computer architecture and OS.
Organizer
Tao Li, University of Florida ([email protected])
Publicity/Publication Chair
James Poe, University of Florida ([email protected])
Program Committee:
Brad Calder, University of California, San Diego
Eugene John, University of Texas at San Antonio
Hsien-Hsin S. Lee, Georgia Institute of Technology
Steve Reinhardt, University of Michigan
Juan Rubio, IBM Austin Research Lab
Anand Sivasubramaniam, Pennsylvania State University
Yan Solihin, North Carolina State University
Submission Guidelines:
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Submit a formatted (IEEE double column) full paper (6 pages) or an extended abstract (3 pages)
including complete author list to Tao Li <[email protected]> by Sept. 16, 2005.
Notification of acceptance will be sent out on Sept. 23, 2005.
A post-workshop proceedings, containing abstracts, full papers and/or talk slides, will be distributed